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Smoking anything around other people, especially something psychoactive, is obnoxious. There should be restrictions on smoking it in public spaces so that those who don't want to / can't partake or can't bear the odor don't have to. I agree, the smell is awful and I see how it could set off a sensory processing overload.

This may sound completely counterintuitive, but have you considered taking high CBD / low THC cannabis yourself? Not smoking it, obviously, but it is available in all manner of forms. There's even a sublingual spray or fast-dissolving sublingual mint that is very user friendly, fast acting and lasts for a long time. I wonder if that might help to calm you enough that you can stand things that might otherwise be overwhelming.

Having many of the same issues you do to varying degrees I found that particular form to be gentle, effective and not at all difficult to take. I am a bundle of raw nerves and it calmed me such that I could handle many things that under ordinary circumstances would have caused severe distress. It also helped a lot with joint and muscle pain / tension and generally improved my mood without causing impairment. I remember thinking after the first mint, "Wow, so this is what NT people refer to as relaxation!"

That sounds like fighting fire with fire and I suppose it is. However, since you can't get rid of the ever present cloud it may help you to deal with that stimulus along with some of the other issues you struggle with. Your mileage may vary of course, but perhaps it's worth careful consideration?

Gosh.

It sounds like a phobia, like what some folks have for flying in airliners.

So...the smell, or sight, of folks smoking weed at a party that you happened to be at causes you to get an agoraphobic type panic attack?

Back in the Fifties and early sixties every public place you went to (like restaurants) was always awash in cigarette smoke.

Does cigarette smoke also bother you this way?

I can understand. The smell of tobacco smoke not weed is repulsive to me. I remember as a child when you could still smoke in restaraunts and did whatever I could to sit as far away as possible. If someone who has been smoking tobacco sits down beside me in public I will immediately get up and move elsewhere. The smell of tobacco smoke gives me an instant headache. If others react that way to weed it makes sense. I use to have a friend who didnt smoke herself but her mother did and when she would come over she would reek of tobacco. I would wash a change of her clothes and she could change into clean clothes otherwise my house would reek of disgusting 3rd hand tobacco smoke.

However I don't think banning smoking outdoors is reasonable whatsoever, just so long as those as*holes don't smoke near the entrances to buildings. In Ontario it is illegal to smoke within 9 meters of a building's entrance or on hospital grounds but of course no one pays any attention to the law and the police absolutely do nothing other than smile and wave.

If I'm around any kind of smoke, tobacco or wood or probably marijuana (dang, "weed" is so much easier to spell), my nose starts to ache, then my throat starts to hurt, and if it's strong and continuous it's like what I think asthma is probably like. I feel like I can't get enough air. (I know asthma is a lot more serious. I can get away from the smoke and in 15 minutes I'm back to normal except for a lingering sore throat.)

There are lots of reasons for people to not smoke near other people. I don't think the happy smokers understand, since it doesn't happen to them. Once when I lived in an apartment, I politely asked a man who was smoking just outside it if he would move down a little bit. He got mad and said I must be crazy, that there was no way to get away from smoke because it was everywhere.

This was at a smoke-free apartment complex that had a designated smoking area, which was NOT just outside my apartment.

I've had a medical license before & I smoke to deal with my own sensory processing troubles. Medical use is medical use, I don't use enough of it to bother with the license anymore but nothing else helps me as much. Without weed I get recurring sleep paralysis, panic attacks & extreme social anxiety.

I agree about CBD. You're ruling something out that could benefit you greatly.

Anyone I personally know that smokes anything won't do it near me, but people in public don't know and do. My family has asked people to move if it's blocking an exit or I'm mid meltdown, many will move, but we have had people who look at us and me like we are crazy for asking and either continue without moving or move closer to us.

I've had trouble also with people smoking in illegal places (Like the pick up area of the airport, or in the entrance of a building)

Downtown, skiing towns, and Denver seem to be the worst to me. I won't even go skiing anymore at all, way too overstimulating in every area and the smoking is ridiculous. Weed isn't the only issue for general going out, it and tobacco both are the big problems together. It can be close to a constant smog in many areas.

No way could I ever get used to it, anymore than having fingers cut off.

I literally ski at Mary Jane & I'm pretty much the only person I know who smokes weed there. I never see what you describe there or Eldora. The big touristy resorts are the only spots you should really avoid.

I think we tend to go to keystone, sometimes breckenridge. They might be the big touristy spots though.

Yep. You seriously can avoid smokers at the little places & they often have better snow. Eldora gets really windy so pretty much no one can smoke there except in the double diamond glades & trees. Go where ski bums like me go, forget the crowds.

Good to know